All, Apologies for not sending the below message sooner. It slipped through the cracks. Anyway, below is a note from Calvin which should be self explanatory to the technically minded among you. Please consider and perhaps we can discuss what, if anything, we should do about this on our next council call. Cheers, Chris Disspain CEO - auDA Australia's Domain Name Administrator ceo@auda.org.au www.auda.org.au Important Notice - This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or copy any part of this email. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
-----Original Message----- From: Calvin Browne [mailto:calvin@orange-tree.alt.za] Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2008 01:43 To: Chris Disspain Subject: work for CCNSO
Hi Chris,
as discussed - some more information about what Nigel, myself and you discussed re the 'whois' server finder issue. As mentioned, I think it is something for the CCNSO to sink its teeth into. I believe the goal is achievable, as well as being particularly useful.
Jay gets into it onto his blog at http://blog.nominet.org.uk/tech/2007/04/17/_nicname-srv-record/.
The actual 'specification' can be found at http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-sanz-whois-srv-01.txt and the ripe discussion on it can be found at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/dns-wg/2002/msg00041.html .
The idea would be to get this draft accepted as an RFC, and as such become an 'Internet standard' and allow ccTLD's and other zone file managers to implement a standard for the *location* of whois services *if* they offer them.
Perhaps you could get someone like Nigel to be the 'issue manager' and thus do all the works required to push this through.
I'll put it in your court now.
regards
--Calvin